Individual Details

Guy IV de Laval

( - Bet 1180 and 1185)

According to Wikipedia:

Guy IV de Laval 1 († between 1180 and 1185 ), he succeeded his father Guy III de Laval as lord of Laval (Mayenne) . Note that there is sometimes confusion in the books between Guy IV of Laval , and his son Guy V of Laval.

Family [ edit | modify the code ]

As his first marriage, he would have married a certain Agathe. With this first wife, he:
Agnès de Laval, who married Aimery VII de Thouars before 1179
Second wife, he married Emma, daughter of Reginald de Dunstanville Earl of Cornwall , and therefore granddaughter of Henry I st Beauclerc . With this second wife, he has:
Guy V of Laval († 1210).
Cécile (or Sibylle) from Laval.
For Couanier de Launay 2 , Geoffroy , another of his children, subsequently became bishop of Le Mans  ; Hamon, the third, was one of the most valiant knights of his time  : he went to the Third Crusade and did things in Palestine , the details of which deserved to be passed down to posterity .
History [ edit | modify the code ]

When his father died in 1144, Guy IV began by violently robbing the monks of Marmoutier of the property they owned in the country of Laval ; which, on his refusal to repair go back, attracts him from Pope Eugene III a sentence of excommunication .
Guillaume de Passavant , bishop of Le Mans, published it in 1150 and prohibited the land of Laval. Guy IV goes back and is relieved of censorship in 1152. Yielding to the authorities of his vassals, he dealt with the Abbey of Marmoutier , through his brother Hamon; he himself made his accommodation with the monks of the Abbaye de la Couture , who had also had their complaints. He gave them one of his serfs, the Fournier Robert, with his house and all that it contained 3 . He then confirms the donations which had been made to them by his predecessors, by requiring only that four religious priests should henceforth be maintained at the Church of the Trinity , including one from the priory of4 .
The May 17, 1152, the first Abbot Philippe signs a founding charter for the Abbey of Clermont with Guy IV of Laval in the presence of Guillaume de Passavant , Bishop of Le Mans .
Main article: Clermont Abbey .
Henri Plantagenêt , son of Geoffroy Plantagenêt , being, by the adoption of Etienne , become king of England , is both suzerain of Touraine, Anjou, Maine and Normandy, and master of the third from France. He appointed lieutenant-general and regent in the provinces of Maine and Anjou, his cousin Guy IV, baron of Laval
Notes and references [ edit | modify the code ]

↑ Genealogy of Guy IV on the Medieval Lands website  [ archive ]
↑ Étienne-Louis Couanier de Launay , History of Laval 818-1855 , Godbert,1856 [ detail of editions ]
↑ Unum ex meis burgensibus solutuin and quictum domuiuque sweating and quicquid in ipsa habebat, scilicet Robertus fornerius prefatis mooachis dedi. (Curry. Cooked.)
↑ Semper in ecclesia Sanctae Trinitatis quartet brother priests dress; very ubicumque jamdictx ecclesise (Culturensis) abbas will assume voluerit, quartus verô de Alversis (Cari. Cuil.)Sources [ edit | modify the code ]

Abbé Angot , “  Sablé  ”, in Bulletin of the Historical and Archaeological Commission of Mayenne , 1919 , n o  35, p.  166-189 , 266-278, 369-380. [1]

Events

DeathBet 1180 and 1185

Families

SpouseEmma de Dunstanville ( - )
ChildGuy V de Laval ( - 1210)
FatherGuy III de Laval ( - 1130)
MotherEmma ( - )